Report external processing documentation

Sorry to answer that, but I can't find documentation about the External processing usage, in the Report attributes page, where the inline help suggests to read the "documentation for intructions".
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Marco

I saw the demo page, but nothing appears in the text area. It's completely blank.
Also following explanation found here Re: PDF printing in 2.0
I tried to set the field URL and link label in my report for test, but no external link appears in the resulting rendered page. (Of course the report is rendered!)
What should I expect? A button, a text link or what?
I use Apex 3.1
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